🌲 winter catchall 🌲

[pactmarshal]

❄️ WHO: Trahearne & u baby!
❄️ WHAT: closed starters for winter
❄️ WHEN: all throughout winter
❄️ WHERE: all over the island
❄️ WARNINGS: to be added in thread headers (definitely nsfw)

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[yourlenore]

( There is a sort of wry irony that even he can appreciate, here: he had worried so much and so terribly about Trahearne affirming their friendship, he had not the time to consider if there was a response that might be worse, more humiliating. Certainly, he had gotten his wish. Trahearne does not affirm their friendship, and he remains withdrawn. Trahearne doesn't answer in the moments after, or the moments after that, and after waiting maybe longer than he feels he ought, Mishka turns his gaze back to the flow of conversation, which rolls on without Trahearne.

It's just as well, though, that he has this break, because Syrlya's voice echoes when he speaks, but the words come out strange. They're not the things he says with his lips, but his voices compliments his dialogue with insight; and then again, Adelis's voice echoes when he speaks, and suggests the same.

For the first several moments of this spontaneous telepathy (thanks, Goddess), he thinks he must not have been as immune to his hallucinogens as he expected himself to be (don't ask about his diet after the whole beast thing). But the echoes make too much sense; they follow the conversation correctly, and compliment the expressions well.

His look of unhappy tolerance toward his whole situation with Trahearne turns into one of perplexed uncertainty as he observes the conversation as a whole as he begins to understand. Ellis has experienced this; he knows this intimately. Mind reading, really? He gazes at Adelis as his exchange with Syrlya continues, not missing the relieving thoughts that argue for jealousy, not disinterest, in tandem with Adelis's case about the Fall and the stark difference between him and Trahearne— but this is soon eclipsed by the thrum of feeling he thinks he knows the tune of in Adelis's head, the flush and fluster recognizable.

Mishka may not be introspective, and Adelis may not have the words for it yet, but jealousy knows when to recognize the spectre of a threat.

Then, Trahearne speaks. )